1900 Farmhouse

A view from the bathroom into the kitchen sans wall. In order to relocate the bathroom door opening, I pretty much had to remove the entire ...

The base plates installed and ready for some stud. This is my first framing attempt ever. It seems so simple in concept but when it comes to...

More potential beadboard wainscoting uncovered on the ceiling as the nook is demolitionized. From my previous post, I mentioned that I reali...

The floor taken up to get access to the joists so we can double them up to minimize deflection. Since a clawfoot tub will eventually be inst...

Another shot from the kitchen into the bath and part of the bedroom that we’ll steal from to add a little breakfast nook. Gary had a brillia...

Looking from the kitchen INTO the bathroom, because there are simply no more walls. The walls consisted of 1/2” sheetrock, 3/4” wood panelli...

As we demolished the bathroom and part of the kitchen, there were patches of 3/4” thick beadboard wainscoting that seemed to pop up now and ...

When I did the attic remodel/dormer addition back in 2003, all sorts of special attention and expense was provided to satisfy the city’s nee...

Continuation of the demolition of the bathroom shows some lovely hues of blue that would even embarrass a Robin. The tear out of the bathroo...

Hello all...my blog has moved to www.1900farmhouse.com Blogger's been great but I'm in need of a little more organization when it co...

I have began official demolition on the kitchen and bath. Not just partial removal to find any hidden roadblocks or cash, but full on guttin...

Holy Smokes! I can't believe it's been nearly a year since I've touched this blog. I'm surprised I remembered my password to...

For about a week, Portland got it's share of the winter blast that the rest of the country went through. Though it's a bit of a pain...

A couple of years ago, I had the guts to hang icicle lights from my gables, 20'+ from the ground. It looked so cool and I really wanted ...

My original piece from Chris Dahlquist back from Labor Day 2007 finally got some friends. And just in the nick of time. These are created ...

This picture was done by a friend of mine, a fellow fiddle player, upon her trip to Scotland. She was in a pub in Skye on a pretty dark dism...

The long awaited chore of painting the picket fence has finally happened. It's only been about 10 years since it's needed a painting...